Favorite Cycling Movies/documentaries?

[Rapid Tourist]

I recently rented "Inspired to Ride" because of a thread on this board. What a great documentary on cycling--truly did "inspire me to ride". Thanks to whoever posted that trailer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4340740/

Got me thinking. There's a lot of wisdom here. What are your favorite cycling movies/documentaries?

[tumbler]

That was a great documentary. Another good one that you can watch online is Cheetah: The Nelson Vails Story (https://vimeo.com/101547499). ESPN's Slaying the Badger was also enjoyable.

[Veloo]

Wired to Win.

Not necessarily about cycling.
Shame they couldn't come to whatever agreement to release on DVD.

I absolutely loved this. Saw it several times. The shots were spectacular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHRvw39OKX8

[buckfifty]

The 30 for 30 on Greg Lemond and Benard Hinault is really good, Slaying the Badger

[stien]

Clean Spirit about Giant was pretty neat. Slaying the Badger, Sunday in Hell.

[choke]

Chris Boardman - The Final Hour

[cadence90]

A Sunday in Hell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxBTVU9JDrA)

The Bicucle Thief (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3jnzXX9mXs)

Slaying the Badger (http://espn.go.com/30for30/film?page=slayingthebadger)

Stars and Watercarriers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0pUiTXV40)

The Impossible Hour (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOuY7mXDWDY)

Clean Spirit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMqN31gwBtQ)

The Flying Scotsman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ukBspc9D0)

The Greatest Show on Earth / La Course en Tête (http://www.bromleyvideo.com/eddy-merckx-the-greatest-show-on-earth-and-la-course-en-tete-dvd.html)

I'm not a huge fan of Breaking Away but a lot of people love it.

[Climb01742]

+1 for 'A Sunday in Hell'

[Macadamia]

E.t.

[Cicli]

I have never seen it but I heard Pee Wees Big Adventure made some cycling movie list.

Mine is Breaking Away.
Or that old Budweiser Light commercial from 1981 or so.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mzh2WNMZ5xk

[Rapid Tourist]

Hey, that Budweiser light commercial was great. I could swear that is Ritchey Havens crooning in their, made my day!

Thanks for these suggestions :banana:

[oldpotatoe]

A Sunday in Hell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxBTVU9JDrA)

The Bicucle Thief (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3jnzXX9mXs)

Slaying the Badger (http://espn.go.com/30for30/film?page=slayingthebadger)

Stars and Watercarriers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0pUiTXV40)

The Impossible Hour (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOuY7mXDWDY)

Clean Spirit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMqN31gwBtQ)

The Flying Scotsman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ukBspc9D0)

The Greatest Show on Earth / La Course en Tête (http://www.bromleyvideo.com/eddy-merckx-the-greatest-show-on-earth-and-la-course-en-tete-dvd.html)

I'm not a huge fan of Breaking Away but a lot of people love it.

Le Course En Tete.

[daker13]

La course en tete is the one I never get tired of watching.

Edit: That Bud Light commercial is great. The Errol Morris/Miller Light one is also pretty good:

http://www.errolmorris.com/commercials/miller/miller_alternativefuels.html

[velomonkey]

Man in 1984 when freestyle was just getting off the ground this commercial came on the Live Aid concert that my older brother was recording.

I must have watched it 50 times on the VCR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLDuyCX_jSo

[cadence90]

+1 for 'A Sunday in Hell'

Le Course En Tete.

A Sunday in Hell and La Course en Tête are the two classics, definitely.
Amazing, desert-island-level films.

[echelon_john]

The Triplets of Belleville

[cadence90]

The Triplets of Belleville
Yes, excellent.

[saab2000]

The Jørgen Leth films, Stars and Watercarriers and A Sunday in Hell are by far my personal favorites. La Course en Tête is great also.

Finally, there's a video documenting Chris Boardman's Hour Record that is a good view as well, but it's got a different feel to it.

[Climb01742]

Discovered this one on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzmXvHHQzcs

It's about the year Wiggo won the Tour. Not a classic, but well done, and if you like Wiggo (I do) it's an interesting glimpse of him.

[Hindmost]

The Jørgen Leth films, Stars and Watercarriers and A Sunday in Hell are by far my personal favorites.

There was a time before VHS tapes when art house theaters would show these two films as a double feature. That was the only way to see them.

What is a VHS tape? An art house theater? A double feature? These are subjects for another thread.

[Rapid Tourist]

I watched "A Survey of Open spaces" last night -- A good documentary of three people riding their bikes self supported from Brownsville Texas through Alaska. That was fun.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4340740/

[p nut]

Rad

http://hookingfoul.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/rad-movie-25-year-anniversary-retrospective.jpg

[foggypeake]

I can't believe no one has mentioned American Flyers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6LQa_ibYe8

[livingminimal]

I can't believe no one has mentioned American Flyers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6LQa_ibYe8

When my Dad, whose name is Dave, used to train locally my Mom would go find him and make sure he had food and water and no problems. I'd be riding shotgun and roll down the window and say "up dave, up....up dave"

[DrSpoke]

I know, it's dirt, but ... Singletrack High

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/singletrack-high-video-2014.html

[JER3]

I haven't seen Ride the Divide (http://www.ridethedividemovie.com/) mentioned yet but I quite enjoyed it.

[weisan]

Giro Live!

[joev]

Got to go with "Tread".

Here is the trailer: http://vimeo.com/34309946?lite=1

Watching this takes away any of the stress/pressure of those roadie group rides and brings out the fun of riding.

[p nut]

Oh, Quicksilver. And another more modern day messenger movie, Premium Rush.

[RonW87]

2 Seconds. Excellent movie out of Quebec that bridges the hipster/fixed gear world and old school Italian sensibility.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0158446/

[fiamme red]

"Marinoni: The Fire in the Frame"

[fiamme red]

A link to this film was posted on the CR list last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRt1gZqg5ag. I had wanted to see it for a long time, and was not disappointed.

It really brings us into the very lively cycling club culture of the time, before working people in northern England could afford cars. Cycling was a way to escape on weekends into quiet country lanes away from the dismal factories and crowded homes.

Honor Blackman is appealing and spirited as the star, 15 years before she became a Bond girl. A young Diana Dors and Anthony Newley are in the film too.

It's probably the only film I'll ever see where internal cable routing is important to the plot. :)

[Clean39T]

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0158446/

The French film "2 Seconds" is obscure, but delightful.

The cranky shop mechanic would fit right in on the Paceline [emoji38]

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[spacemen3]

I'll add these two to the list:

Vive le Tour (1962)
Battle of the Bikes - Boardman v Obree (1994)

[572cv]

A Short, if you an find it:

‘L’ecole des factures’, by Jacques Tati. Sort of Charlie Chaplin on a bike, sometimes packaged with ‘Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday ‘ . Both obscure, funny, and charming.

[paredown]

Warning: Canadian content...

An old inspiration for us when there was almost nothing about cycling to be found--a Canadian National Film Board documentary shot in Quebec--of the 11th St-Laurent long-distance bicycle race held in Quebec in the summer of 1965

Rudimentary film-making--but interesting as a historical artifact:
https://www.nfb.ca/film/60_cycles_en/

[fignon's barber]

I'm going with Andy Schleck in.....Le Velo :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn0FF1KwL4I

[quickfeet]

The road uphill (on amazon prime now)

9 ball diaries

Transition 1&2

Off-road to Athens

The list goes on and on...

[deechee]

Hell on Wheels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUu0AoIDHkc) (Höllentour)

Definitely the most enjoyable documentary I ever saw.

I really should re-watch les Triplettes but man, all I remember was falling asleep in the theatre when I watched it the first time and thinking why I did I pay to watch this :P

[drewski]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041203/

A boy, a girl, and a bike. Shows some amazing bikes from the 1940's.
With Anthony Newley in his yout.

Storyline
When a local cycle club, invite a couple of new members to join them, little do the club realise, that they will soon be involved in a couple of illegal bookmakers putting the squeeze on the son of one of the Members, a stolen bike, a deserting soldier on the run from the police, and a love triangle, that's bound to lead to trouble. During the late 40's and the early 50's, there seem to be hundreds of these clubs. This film shows a fascinating look at a North Country mill town, with a refreshing absence of traffic jams, yellow lines , traffic wardens, and other things we have become accustomed to seeing on our roads today.

[rePhil]

Maybe hard to find now, but "All for One", a feel good movie about Team Orica Scott, Greenedge,Mitchelton as they are known today. Similar to their Backstage Pass videos.
I can't believe that I was able to convince my wife to go to the theater. She really enjoyed it. There weren't very many people there, but 90% were women.

[Volksbike]

A little dated, but Breaking Away.


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[martl]

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0158446/

The French film "2 Seconds" is obscure, but delightful.

Parpaillon ("up and down") by Luc Moullet. Also french, also weird, also delightful. And i'm pretty sure its a documentary of a paceline group ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXdyvKKM4rY

[PaMtbRider]

Eat, Race, Win is a pretty good series on Amazon prime. It follows Team Orica Scott at the 2017 Tour de France. It focuses on the chef and crew preparing meals for the team and how they try to source local food.

[AngryScientist]

Eat, Race, Win is a pretty good series on Amazon prime. It follows Team Orica Scott at the 2017 Tour de France. It focuses on the chef and crew preparing meals for the team and how they try to source local food.

i agree, i enjoyed that mini series. it was an interesting look into not only the food aspect but some other behind the scenes logistics and downtime of the teams and staff on a grand tour.

[Billybob62]

I don't think it's on Netflix any longer but Personal gold is a documentary about the 2012 US Womens team pursuit. Very entertaining

[MisterMurray]

Accidental Death of a Cyclist was good

https://d32qys9a6wm9no.cloudfront.net/images/movies/poster/cd/cd42c963390a9cd025d007dacfa99351_500x735.jpg

[Hawker]

Just watched and loved, All for One. Well done documentary of the Aussie based GreenEdge Team over five years. Really enjoyed it and it actually draws you in emotionally. Five stars!

[Ozz]

"Bicycle Thieves" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/)

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.

[rePhil]

Agreed. My wife and I went to see it at the local theatre. A pleasant surprise was that most of the people in the theatre were female. Matt Hayman's emotional
P-R win is definitely a nice side to our sport.







Just watched and loved, All for One. Well done documentary of the Aussie based GreenEdge Team over five years. Really enjoyed it and it actually draws you in emotionally. Five stars!